Top 50 baby names of 1920

In 1920 — the start of the roaring twenties — the population of the United States had rocketed to over 106 million people.

The first commercial radio station in the US (WWJ AM in Detroit) went on the air, Babe Ruth was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees, and the United States Post Office Department had to make a formal rule that children could not be sent via parcel post.